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4 Days Left to Help InfinitEye 210 Degree HMD Prototype Win €100,000 in Funding

InfinitEye is a head mounted display prototype with a whopping 210 degree horizontal field of view that's on a similar trajectory as the Oculus Rift; the prototype was conceived and constructed by a group of VR enthusiasts who are...

Oculus on Unconfirmed VR Input Device: “You’ll Probably Hear More About It [at Connect]…”

While there was lots of great info to come out of our Gamecom 2014 interview with Oculus VR, perhaps the most telling bit was the way the Oculus founder Palmer Luckey answered the question about an unconfirmed VR input...
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NVIDIA PhysX Demo Shows Rigid Body Physics Interactions on a Massive Scale

The demo, presented at NVIDIA's event yesterday where they announced the new GTX 1080 Ti, covers a large area brimming with opportunity for physics-based interactions, a field of seemingly infinite boulders and a bulldozer created to show off the...

Consumer Gear VR Teardown Reveals Easily Replaceable Lenses

Frank He lets his curiosity get the better of him as he tears apart his consumer Samsung Gear VR headset for your information and in the interests of science and for those perhaps interested in considering modifying their units. The 3rd...

HTC to Sell Shanghai Phone Factory for $91 Million, Invest Proceeds in VR Business

Despite its major role in the growing VR space, HTC's overall business continues to struggle financially, posting significant losses over the last two years. Working to turn things around with a restructuring of assets and priorities, the company is...

Leap Motion’s New Mobile Hand-tracking Sensor Brings 180-degree Field of View

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly...

Sneak Peek at The VOID’s Latest Tech to Feature at TED 2016

The VOID, the virtual reality theme park experience, has caused quite a stir in the industry over the last 12 months. Now, the company are taking their free-roaming brand of mixed reality entertainment to TED2016 and Road to VR's...

PlayStation VR: What You Do and Don’t Get in the Box

The PlayStation VR headset will be available from October 2016 for $399, but what do you get for your 400 bucks? That how does what's missing cost you? As an additional piece of hardware dedicated to gaming, the PlayStation VR...

Vive Tracker Enables a Bevy of Bats, Guns, Gloves, and Other Tracked Accessories

Today at CES 2017 HTC announced the Vive Tracker, a standalone tracking module that's designed to attach to anything to become tracked in the virtual world. We heard at least as far back as the reveal of the HTC Vive...
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This Full Video of Valve’s ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Wonderful and Spoilerific

*** Warning: This Video Contains Spoilers *** Watch as an anonymous player works through Valve's Aperture Science demo, built to demonstrate the capabilities of Valve's new virtual reality technology - HTC Vive. At the PlayHubs game jam in London last week...

VR-optimized Forward Renderer Comes to Unreal Engine 4.14, Said to Be 22% Faster

Epic Games touted their VR-optimized forward renderer as the reason why their forthcoming Robo Recall game looks so crisp in VR. Now the tech is available to all Unreal Engine developers in version 4.14 released today. While deferred rendering has...

Oculus’ Jason Rubin on Wireless VR “the Wrong Direction for Right Now”

Speaking at GDC 2017, Jason Rubin described VR wireless technology as “compressed, not perfect, and expensive” and “the wrong direction for right now”. Rubin’s task at Oculus is to deliver compelling VR content, and believes that hardware features such...

Ubisoft’s Star Trek VR Game will Let 4 Friends Command a Starship, Leak Suggests

In what could be dream VR title for many out there, a leaked article from DigitalSpy have revealed details of an upcoming virtual reality Star Trek title that lets 4 players command the bridge of a starship. Given the crossover of...

New YouTube VR App is Completely Re-designed for Daydream

YouTube has launched a new app to coincide with today's Daydream launch, one that's built for virtual reality headsets and designed from the ground up to work with Google's 'next gen' mobile VR platform. Immersive video and VR film has...

Facebook Study Finds Introverts Feel More Comfortable with VR Social Interaction

A recent study by Facebook IQ, in which people completed one-on-one conversations in VR, concluded that most people respond positively, and introverts in particular feel more comfortable. Facebook IQ is a team established to assist marketers in understanding the...
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